Posts Tagged ‘Coronation Street’

One shouldn’t pay much attention to surveys such as the one recently conducted and released by the Office of National Statistics which suggests that the British are the loneliest people in Europe, n...
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Robert Mickens, in his column 'Letter from Rome' in last week's Tablet magazine, describes an experience he had during the Conclave with an Italian archbishop who heads one of the Vatican's major offi...
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Earlier this year BBC Radio 4 asked me to take part in a series they were putting together for the Olympic year called 'My Own Shakespeare'. Two to three minutes long, each programme was meant to focu...
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It's hardly the time for the Government to throw away £2m on a survey by the Office for National Statistics into the country's well-being, not least because we already know the answer – Brita...
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Writing about the Hallé Orchestra the other day, I was going to call Manchester England’s second city. I’ve always felt its right to that crown is justified, but the problem is that Birmingham ma...
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When doing the painstaking research for the scholarly essay I posted a few days ago on wide lapels, I was puzzled by the fact that the word 'buttonhole' refers to both the floral arrangement and the h...
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